Other than being so very photogenic, Postcard Teas has lovely teas inside!

The staff work with you one on one from start to finish. Their selection of teas is relatively small but high quality from small farms.

You can send postcards of tea from the shop (hence the name). I believe there was a selection of six or so of their popular teas that you could choose from. You address your postcard and they put it in the mail. You can taste any of their teas before buying for a little tasting fee as well.

I love Whittards in Covent Garden! It’s always so lovely and the employees seem like they know what they’re talking about and always so pleasant.

The upstairs is a small shop with a representative selection of their teas. Then you walk down the stairs to the rest of the shop, which is many times the size and has a lovely little tea room and tasting area.

Great little Soho chocolatier with a European-style cafe in the back room. They mostly have great chocolate but also great beverages. Predictably, one of the teas is a chocolate flavored one. We were also huge fans of the various hot chocolates. Everything is incredibly rich so the smallest size always does the trick. They also do a great matcha latte and incorporate matcha into a lot of their chocolates.

Try the white chocolate matcha bar, it’s my favorite. :)

It’s across the street from the Soho Harney & Sons if you’re doing a tea crawl and Palais des Thes is also nearby.

Nice tea and tea accessories, and local honey, and some sweets too! Always something nice here. The employees usually have a pretty good idea of what’s good, and they’ve got fun stuff behind the counter if you ask (like aged puerh medallions).

Bewley’s Cafe closed in 2015 for refurbishment but is supposed to reopen in 2016. It’s located on Grafton Street which is the heart of Dublin’s best shopping district. Therefore, this fun shop is always packed to the gills regardless of having three (?) confusing floors. You come in, push other people around, and snipe yourself a table.

It was great for a cuppa and soup or a scone, especially because you were probably just walking around in some chilly rain. However, according to the Irish Times, when it reopens it’ll be much smaller with a smaller menu. So I guess we’ll have to see! Very sad times. I’ve probably been 4 or 5 times and I’m sad to hear it’s getting reduced.

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I live in NC with my Irish husband and our two furbabies, Olaf the Hedgehog and his little brother Hugo the Peekapoo. I’m a microbiologist but mostly I love to travel.

My mom is the tea guru ashmanra. I have an uneducated interest in tea. I began drinking green tea a few years ago to be healthy and have developed a taste for matcha, white, puerh, and some black. My go-to is Stash White Christmas which I drink in amounts that should probably be studied long-term. Stash should probably be sponsoring me. (except they just discontinued White Christmas and were rude when I contacted them about it…. Never mind about Stash, they are canceled)